Welfare
by Frederick Wiseman2h471975United States
Recommended byLodge Kerrigan, Justine Triet, Alice Diop
The film"s page
Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
Credits
- Production Compagny : Triangle Film Corporation, Wark Producing
- Editing : James Smith, Rose Smith, David Wark Griffith
- Original Music : Louis F. Gottschalk
- Photo Director : G.W. Bitzer
- Costume Design : David Wark Griffith
- Set Decoration : David Wark Griffith
- Producer : David Wark Griffith
- Director : David Wark Griffith
- Scenario : David Wark Griffith
- Distributor : Collection Lobster Films
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1975
- French release date : 12 May 1919
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Silent